America's Assembly Line

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The assembly line was invented in 1913 and has been in continuous operation ever since. It is the most familiar form of mass production. Both praised as a boon to workers and condemned for exploiting them, it has been celebrated and satirized. (We can still picture Chaplin¿s little tramp trying to keep up with a factory conveyor belt.) Nye describes this evolution and the new global landscape of increasingly automated factories, with fewer industrial jobs in America and questionable working conditions in developing countries. A century after Ford¿s pioneering innovation, the assembly line continues to evolve toward more sustainable manufacturing